Privacy policy

Last updated: September 18, 2026

This policy explains which personal data is collected by Digital Bookstore, operated by Mourad El Hammoumi (self-employed sole proprietor, Montréal, Québec, Canada), why it is collected, and how you keep control over it.

1. Person in charge of personal information protection

The person in charge of the protection of personal information is Mourad El Hammoumi, analyst programmer, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Write to elh.mourad@gmail.com with any question about your information, to exercise one of the rights described below, or to report a confidentiality incident.

2. Data we collect

  • Account: your email address and, if you provide it, your name.
  • Orders: the books purchased, the amounts, the currency, the date and the payment status.
  • Downloads: the date and format of each file downloaded. Neither your IP address nor your browser is recorded.

We collect no banking data. Card numbers are entered directly on the servers of Stripe, our payment provider, and never pass through our systems.

3. Why this data

  • To create and secure your account.
  • To process your orders and give you access to your books.
  • To reply when you contact us.
  • To meet our accounting and legal obligations (keeping proof of transactions).

We do not use your data for any advertising purpose, and we neither sell nor rent it to third parties.

4. Providers that process data for us

  • Supabase — database hosting and account management. The data is hosted in the Canada (Central) region.
  • Vercel — website hosting.
  • Stripe — payment processing. Stripe applies its own privacy and security policies (PCI-DSS standard).

5. Cookies

The site only uses cookies necessary for it to work: they keep your session open when you are signed in, and remember the language you chose. No advertising cookie or third-party tracker is placed.

6. Retention period

Account information is kept as long as your account exists. Order and payment data is kept for as long as applicable accounting and tax obligations require. Download logs — date and format — are kept for 12 months, then deleted automatically.

7. Your rights

Under the legislation applicable in Quebec (in particular Law 25 on the protection of personal information), you may at any time:

  • access the information we hold about you;
  • ask for it to be corrected if it is inaccurate;
  • ask for your account and the data not subject to a legal retention obligation to be deleted;
  • withdraw your consent and stop using the service.

Two of these rights can be exercised on your own, from the My account page: Download my data hands you a complete copy in a format another application can read, and Close my account deletes your account. If you have already bought something, the amounts of your orders are kept without your name or address: tax law requires that a sale remain accountable.

For anything else, write to elh.mourad@gmail.com. We reply within a reasonable time, at the latest 30 days after receiving your request.

8. Security

Exchanges with the site are encrypted (HTTPS). Book files are stored in a private space: they are only reachable through a temporary link generated after your purchase has been verified. Passwords are never stored in plain text.

9. Changes

This policy may be updated. The date of the last update appears at the top of this page.